Dr. Rahma Aldawan, a British-Palestinian doctor and surgical trainee in the UK’s National Health Service, has been suspended from practicing medicine for 15 months after posting a series of antisemitic and pro-terror messages praising the October 7 atrocities and attacking Israel and Jews.
Aldawan shocked the British public with online posts describing Israelis as “worse than Nazis,” calling Hamas terrorists “oppressed resistance fighters,” and dismissing the Holocaust as an “invented victimhood narrative.”
In additional posts she celebrated October 7 as a day when “Israel was humiliated,” claimed Israeli hostages “are falling in love with the resistance fighters,” labeled Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis a “genocide rabbi,” and described London’s Royal Free Hospital — which serves a large Jewish community — as a “cesspit of Jewish supremacy.” Witnesses also reported she made throat-slitting gestures toward Jewish demonstrators.
This is Aldawan’s second disciplinary process. A previous panel last September avoided suspending her on the grounds of “free speech,” drawing harsh criticism from Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who said the NHS must root out racism.